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Fallen leaves return to the root.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese

Fallen blossom doesn't return to the branch.

Proverbs and old sayings Japanese

Fallen blossoms do not return to branches; a broken mirror does not again reflect.

Proverbs and old sayings Japanese

Wait until the tree has fallen before you jump over it.

Proverbs and old sayings Thai

A fallen branch cannot bear fruits on its own.

Proverbs and old sayings West African

Do not laugh at the fallen; you may find slippery roads ahead.

Proverbs and old sayings West African

No matter how long a fallen tree stays in the river it can never be a crocodile.

Proverbs and old sayings West African

It's as if she's fallen off an elephant's trunk.

Proverbs and old sayings

The day did not know that night had fallen.

Proverbs and old sayings Cameroonian about night, day

A good bee never lands on a fallen flower.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about garden, good, good luck

A fallen lighthouse is more dangerous than a reef.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese

No man has fallen from the sky learned.

Proverbs and old sayings Czech about sky, man

From a fallen tree, all make kindling.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish

Not even a god can bring back the leaves that have fallen.

Proverbs and old sayings about god

When a mouse has fallen into a meal sack, he thinks he is the miller himself.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch

Gnaw the bone which is fallen to thy lot.

Proverbs and old sayings English

He that is fallen cannot help him that is down.

Proverbs and old sayings English about help

Rarely is a fight continued when the chief has fallen.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about fight

To the fallen tree, hatchets! hatchets!

Proverbs and old sayings Italian

When a man has fallen into the mire, the more he flounders the more he fouls himself.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about man